Leptoquark Pair Production at e+e- Linear Colliders: Signals and Background

Abstract

We study pair production of leptoquarks in e+e- annihilation at linear colliders. A detailed simulation including beamstrahlung and initial state radiation, leptoquark decay and hadronization, as well as detector smearing, is performed. Discovery limits are estimated for center-of-mass energies of 500 and 800 GeV. The prospects for determining masses and couplings of leptoquarks are also investigated.

25 pages, LaTeX, including 17 postscript figures, to appear in the Proceedings of the Joint ECFA/DESY Study on Physics and Detectors for the Linear Collider, Feb - Nov 1996, Ed. R. Settles, DESY 97-123E